Scatterbrain - "Don't Call Me Dude"
The most ambitious of the three videos. It actually got a good deal of rotation on Headbanger's Ball back in the day. Wikipedia says it was a top 20 hit in Australia, which speaks volumes about the musical tastes of our brothers and sisters in Oz.
The Pursuit Of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
Filled with great lines like the one I used in the subject, the lyrics are wry and dryly delivered. I thought it was an amusing song when I was 19. Now it's fucking hysterical. Really.
The Look People - "Five"
The previous two videos, I will grant that you may have seen/heard it before. Chances are though, you've never witnessed this next one. The song is completely wacky and its performers even more so. This is one of those low-budget videos where they used every green-screen trick, every angle, and what seems like a gajillion snap-zoom shots. How many minutes does Brubeck take?
anyway, that chicken you and Erin made for Aaron and I the first night I was there.. I know I asked how to make it then, but I forgot! Can you remind me? :)
i think the other two vids are going to give me nightmares. i'd conveniently forgotten just how deeply the world of music had succumbed to Berklee syndrome back in the late 80s. what a contrast to today's Soulja Boy world. and then, in between, we had to tolerate Alanis. they they have the nerve to *wonder aloud* why the record industry has died.
I can't help but wonder, though, if Moe Berg had been playing anything than that honey blonde Tele that he shows-off every.chance.he.gets through the video if you would've been so generous in your appraisal of it.
As for Nomeansno. I have heard some of their stuff, but I've never read or heard anything that's made me seek them out with more diligence. Perhaps I just haven't heard the right stuff yet.
i'll admit i'm a big sucker for maple-fingerboard blond Teles. but it doesn't influence me; i like the pink BC Rich on the right stage side of the Scatterbrain video almost as much. i *am* intrigued by the guitar solo on the TPoH song; it's the only solo i've ever encountered that uses a pitch transposition pedal at an interval of a major second below throughout, which should sound maddening and awful, but somehow he totally gets away with it and manages to pull off a straight-ahead sounding conventional rock solo. wild.
anyhoo, you might check out the Ladyhawke record if you like conventional production values and songwriting and all that. i haven't been able to get totally into it because it's a bit too commercial to my ears, but it's commercial in an admittedly good and solidly-grounded way. there's a copy over here.
PS SHUT UP
I don' mean no hurtin', dawg
PS I meant shut up about Third Eye Blind. I know, I know -- but they were tight, slick records. Prods cater too much to fucking earbuds now unless they deal in punk, and G-d that shit has ever been a mess.
NO CREDIBILITY EVER OBVS
..and if You like Plant MF/Psychoholic Slag, you really should watch this:
It's funny how I go for so many years not knowing something because I didn't have the power of THE INTERNETS at my disposal at the time. It's funnier because now that I have it, I've forgotten all the things I didn't know... if that makes sense.
A quick Googling just told me that the other memorable movie sample in that song "Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?" is from The Mummy (1932).
I would've liked to have seen Skinny Puppy back in the day.